L.A. Kings forward Mike Richards spears San Jose Sharks forward Logan Couture in the mid-section.
14:44 LAK Mike Richards Spearing - double minor - 4 min against Logan Couture
Sunday, April 20, 2014
(VIDEO) Mike Richards spears Logan Couture
L.A. Kings forward Mike Richards spears San Jose Sharks forward Logan Couture in the mid-section.
14:44 LAK Mike Richards Spearing - double minor - 4 min against Logan Couture
(Video) Ryan Callahan No Goal Call vs Montreal Canadiens
I don't see any reason why this goal doesn't count, but I guess we need to take a look at NHL Rule 69.3.
69.1 Interference on the Goalkeeper - This rule is based on the premise that an attacking player’s position, whether inside or outside the crease, should not, by itself, determine whether a goal should be allowed or disallowed. In other words, goals scored while attacking players are standing in the crease may, in appropriate circumstances be allowed. Goals should be disallowed only if: (1) an attacking player, either by his positioning or by contact, impairs the goalkeeper’s ability to move freely within his crease or defend his goal; or (2) an attacking player initiates intentional or deliberate contact with a goalkeeper, inside or outside of his goal crease. Incidental contact with a goalkeeper will be permitted, and resulting goals allowed, when such contact is initiated outside of the goal crease, provided the attacking player has made a reasonable effort to avoid such contact. The rule will be enforced exclusively in accordance with the on-ice judgment of the Referee(s), and not by means of video replay or review.
Watch That's Hockey 2Nite on TSN 2 this evening with Steve Kouleas and you you will get the straight, correct answer on Tampa disallowed.
— Kerry Fraser (@kfraserthecall) April 21, 2014
Player who is in the goal crease & this results with impairment of goalkeeper's ability to defend his goal, the goal will be disallowed.
— Kerry Fraser (@kfraserthecall) April 21, 2014
Correct call on disallowed goal! 69.3if goalkeeper in act of establishing his position within crease, initiates contact with an attacking
— Kerry Fraser (@kfraserthecall) April 21, 2014
(Video) Almost Fight - Brendan Smith versus Zdeno Chara.
To quote Doc Emerick, "There are many in the NHL watching this and if I were Smith, I would hope that the linesmen arrive." This would have been the mismatch of the century.
Seabrook banned for three games
None of us should be surprised that Brent Seabrook suspended three games by the National Hockey League.
NEW YORK -- Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brent Seabrook has been suspended for three games for interference and charging against St. Louis Blues forward David Backes during Game 2 of the teams' First Round Stanley Cup Playoffs series in St. Louis on Saturday, April 19, the National Hockey League's Department of Player Safety announced today.Brent Seabrook on the hit.
The incident occurred at 15:09 of the third period. Seabrook was assessed a major penalty and game misconduct for charging.
“It wasn’t my intent,’’ a contrite Seabrook said regarding his check that leveled Blues forward David Backes and earned Seabrook a game misconduct. “I was just trying to make a play on Backes. I thought the puck was there. I was on [Alexander] Steen. I was just coming down the wall and I just tried to finish my hit.’’Former UND forward Chris Porter on the Seabrook hit.
When (Backes) went down like that, I thought it gave us a little bit more push to finish it off …" winger Chris Porter said. "He's our leader. We'll do whatever it takes to get him back. If that's winning a couple of games more, then so be it."Former All-American goalie Ryan Miller said this.
“I didn’t like it,” Miller said. “I don’t think a lot of people who are hockey fans and have seen they way they’ve been calling things should like it. I imagine the NHL will have something to say about it but it’s not up for the players to decide. We’ll see what they do with it. But it certainly was not what we want to see.”
Blackhawks player to Backes "wakey, wakey"
s/t to Kukla's Korner. At about the 45 second mark of the video, you can hear an unidentified Blackhawks player say "wakey, wakey." That's low class and bushleague. I didn't catch the comments the first around. Oh boy, this series could get really nasty.
Shocker. Listen closely during this video and you can hear a Hawks player saying "wakey, wakey" to Backes https://t.co/h6ZwNssD3k #stlblues
— Norm Sanders (@NormSanders) April 20, 2014
(Video) Avalanche goal by Nate MacKinnon
What a goal by Avalanche forward Nate MacKinnon. He kind of made the Wild defense look sick. Wild defenseman Jared Spurgeon is stil trying to find his cup.
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Tweets of the night
@GerDevine I guess I haven't seen a non-Cup contender fire a coach after 2nd best record in franchise history and making the playoffs.
— Bryan Reynolds (@BReynoldsMN) April 20, 2014
Hits to head, brain injuries , merit more than phone hearings. Note to NHL: wake up.
— Kevin Paul Dupont (@GlobeKPD) April 20, 2014
The Columbus Blue Jackets have won their first ever playoff game. http://t.co/CHLqfkbbfd
— Reddit Hockey (@Reddit_Hockey) April 20, 2014
Eatern Conference Matchups pic.twitter.com/cLxuGA5gDZ
— The Hockey Gods! (@HockeyGods) April 16, 2014
Western Conference Matchups pic.twitter.com/npL1qnYNv7
— The Hockey Gods! (@HockeyGods) April 19, 2014
(video) Brent Seabrook's dirty hit on David Backes (with quotes)
I would have to think that Blackhawks Defenseman Brent Seabrook is going to get a two-tree game suspension for this hit. For the record, Seabrook has never been suspended.
15:09 CHI Brent Seabrook served by Antti Raanta Charging (maj) - 5 min against David Backes
15:09 CHI Brent Seabrook Game misconduct - 10 min against David Backes
Biggest test to date for new #NHL discipline chief Stephane Quintal in regard to how he handles Brent Seabrook hit.
— Andy Strickland (@andystrickland) April 20, 2014
NHL taking look at both Bryan Bickell's kneeing to Vladimir Sobotka and Brent Seabrook's hit on David Backes. No word yet on hearings.
— Chris Kuc (@ChrisKuc) April 19, 2014
#Blackhawks' Brent Seabrook on Blues' David Backes: "I hope Backes is feeling all right and I hope he’s doing OK."
— Chris Kuc (@ChrisKuc) April 19, 2014
#Blackhawks' Brent Seabrook: "Hits have been laid like that from both sides the whole series. We’ll see what happens."
— Chris Kuc (@ChrisKuc) April 19, 2014
Jeremy Roenick basically just defended Brent Seabrook's hit. Idiot. "Backes has been taking runs at the Blackhawks all series."
— Scott McLaughlin (@smclaughlin9) April 20, 2014
The Playoff Problem (Redwing77)
I love playoff hockey... ANY playoff hockey.... but I also think it's one of the worst hockey out there. Why? Well... mostly it is due to hypocrisy.
All throughout the regular season, teams play the game and commit penalties. Sometimes these infractions result in suspensions, fines, and so on. Ah, but then the playoffs begin and it's all changed!
The playoff rulebook has come into play!
This rule book is the most hypocritical, imo, rules entity in professional sports. I've watched playoff hockey this year in both the USHL and the NHL and they're both the same. It takes an act of God to get the refs to raise their arms. Why? What happens when the postseason begins that makes a call that is made ALL SEASON LONG no longer required? If the refs aren't enforcing the rulebook, why do we have 2 refs and 2 ARs on the ice? Why not just have 2 ARs just to call offsides, icing, and drop the puck on faceoffs and just rely upon the video replay judge and the goal judges to determine goals? There is no reason for refs if the rulebook is optional.
Yesterday, we saw two overt spears in Corey Perry and Milan Lucic. Neither resulted in penalties being called. Lucic's resulted in a wrist smacking $5,000 fine. Well, the message is clear. Your stars can spear guys and they'll only lose part of a game check! NO PENALTY!!! I'm too used to the NCAA rulebook that states that spearing is a 5 minute major and game ejection. It's legal in the NHL, I guess. It's also legal to slash a stick in two pieces if it results in a scoring opportunity (ala Anaheim's short handed goal by Cogliano).
I LOVE the game of hockey. I LOVE a good, clean, hardfought, physical game. But I'm also a big proponent of the rulebook. I believe truly that the rulebook is in place for essentially two main reasons: 1. Integrity of the game itself and 2. Player safety. If the rulebook isn't going to be enforced, then I hope the playoff teams have good insurance and travel policies because someone's going to leave on a stretcher and they'll need a body to fill the void ASAP.
In the NHL, IMO, cheap shots occur when enforcers are handcuffed due to situational concerns and/or the rulebook AND the officials either have lost control of the game or refuse to enforce the rulebook. Yes, I LOVE games like what we saw with Chicago vs. St. Louis. I LOVED last year's Finals between Boston and Chicago. But I LOATHE games where the sport is made even more dangerous than it has to be because the playoff rulebook is in effect.
I'm not sure where the money comes from to pay refs for NHL games. However, if the playoff rulebook is truly as optional as the rules have been applied thus far, help out the common man in the playoffs. Simply do not put any armbanded refs on the ice at all and save the money spent to pay them by passing the savings onto the playoff attendee. If this sounds ridiculous, then it's time to start using the rulebook again and saving the integrity and health of the players before someone gets seriously hurt.
And I haven't even begun about the USHL. USHL playoff rulebooks remind me a TON of the clutch and grab style of WCHA officiating back in the early 2000s... even down to the fact that, even when they DO call penalties, it will be a LOCK that neither team will have an advantage on the powerplay... even if they have to invent a penalty to make it equal (which I've witnessed personally).
Save the game. You don't have to call everything. You just have to call the same game as you do during the regular season.
All throughout the regular season, teams play the game and commit penalties. Sometimes these infractions result in suspensions, fines, and so on. Ah, but then the playoffs begin and it's all changed!
The playoff rulebook has come into play!
This rule book is the most hypocritical, imo, rules entity in professional sports. I've watched playoff hockey this year in both the USHL and the NHL and they're both the same. It takes an act of God to get the refs to raise their arms. Why? What happens when the postseason begins that makes a call that is made ALL SEASON LONG no longer required? If the refs aren't enforcing the rulebook, why do we have 2 refs and 2 ARs on the ice? Why not just have 2 ARs just to call offsides, icing, and drop the puck on faceoffs and just rely upon the video replay judge and the goal judges to determine goals? There is no reason for refs if the rulebook is optional.
Yesterday, we saw two overt spears in Corey Perry and Milan Lucic. Neither resulted in penalties being called. Lucic's resulted in a wrist smacking $5,000 fine. Well, the message is clear. Your stars can spear guys and they'll only lose part of a game check! NO PENALTY!!! I'm too used to the NCAA rulebook that states that spearing is a 5 minute major and game ejection. It's legal in the NHL, I guess. It's also legal to slash a stick in two pieces if it results in a scoring opportunity (ala Anaheim's short handed goal by Cogliano).
I LOVE the game of hockey. I LOVE a good, clean, hardfought, physical game. But I'm also a big proponent of the rulebook. I believe truly that the rulebook is in place for essentially two main reasons: 1. Integrity of the game itself and 2. Player safety. If the rulebook isn't going to be enforced, then I hope the playoff teams have good insurance and travel policies because someone's going to leave on a stretcher and they'll need a body to fill the void ASAP.
In the NHL, IMO, cheap shots occur when enforcers are handcuffed due to situational concerns and/or the rulebook AND the officials either have lost control of the game or refuse to enforce the rulebook. Yes, I LOVE games like what we saw with Chicago vs. St. Louis. I LOVED last year's Finals between Boston and Chicago. But I LOATHE games where the sport is made even more dangerous than it has to be because the playoff rulebook is in effect.
I'm not sure where the money comes from to pay refs for NHL games. However, if the playoff rulebook is truly as optional as the rules have been applied thus far, help out the common man in the playoffs. Simply do not put any armbanded refs on the ice at all and save the money spent to pay them by passing the savings onto the playoff attendee. If this sounds ridiculous, then it's time to start using the rulebook again and saving the integrity and health of the players before someone gets seriously hurt.
And I haven't even begun about the USHL. USHL playoff rulebooks remind me a TON of the clutch and grab style of WCHA officiating back in the early 2000s... even down to the fact that, even when they DO call penalties, it will be a LOCK that neither team will have an advantage on the powerplay... even if they have to invent a penalty to make it equal (which I've witnessed personally).
Save the game. You don't have to call everything. You just have to call the same game as you do during the regular season.
Lucic will not be suspended
According to Joe Haggerty of CSNNE.COM, Milan Lucic will not be suspended. Lucic was fined $5,000.00 for his spear.
Joe Haggerty ( @HackswithHaggs) tweeted at 12:12pm - 19 Apr 14: Milan Lucic: "I don't know what I was thinking. I pride myself on playing within the rules, and that's obviously something I can't be doing"
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Joe Haggerty ( @HackswithHaggs) tweeted at 12:09pm - 19 Apr 14: Milan lucic said there's no hearing on his spear of Danny DeKeyser, but he does have to call the league office about it.
Where’s the feigned outrage for Corey Perry cup check on Jamie Benn?
By now, you’ve probably seen the chop to the groin region of Detroit
Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser by Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic … Almost
on cue, the Lucic haters have demanded a lengthy suspension of the Bruins forward.
Ah, but there’s a catch, while everyone was drawing and
quartering El Diablo Milan Lucic, the Ducks forward Corey Perry was also checking Jamie Benn’s
cup region as well. Where was the feigned outrage for that stick incident? Both plays are equally
objectionable, and if you suspend one player, you must suspend the other one, right?
Here's a prediction, neither player will receive any games off. However, they will be given a stern warning and put on double secret probation. Frankly, that's playoff hockey.
Here's a prediction, neither player will receive any games off. However, they will be given a stern warning and put on double secret probation. Frankly, that's playoff hockey.
T.J. Oshie is questionable for game two
Former UND forward T.J. Oshie is questionable for game two between the St. Louis Blue and the Chicago Blackhawks.
NHL.COM -- The Blues held an optional skate Friday afternoon inside St. Louis Outlet Mall. Ten skaters took the ice, two were injured forwards T.J. Oshie (upper body) and Patrik Berglund (upper body).
For Oshie, it was another day on the ice gearing himself up for a return to the lineup; he's questionable for Saturday. Berglund skated with teammates for the first time Friday; he's more inclined to miss the game Saturday. Each missed Game 1.
"I didn't see them," Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said. "Until someone taps me on the shoulder and says he's a game player, he's out. Our lineup's going to be fluid every day. Every day it's going to be fluid. I told you guys before, we're going to have everybody playing in this series at some period of time, so that obviously means by Game 5, we expect everybody to be ready to go and hopefully nobody gets injured. Touch wood, but that's our expectations."
Blues captain David Backes said a healthy Oshie is good for the team at any point.
"He's a horse for us, an Energizer bunny that never stops," Backes said. "You talk about fatigue, he's a guy that would have a few days of rest [going] into a series which has a lot guys that have played some big minutes in the last 36 hours. So it'll be hopefully a jolt to the arm if he's in. If not, we've proven that we can win if he's not in the lineup. We'll have to have the same sort of performance again
Friday, April 18, 2014
Idiot of the night, Stay classy
Detroit may be bankrupt but at least they didn’t get bombed
— Ty (@Ty_Johnson313) April 19, 2014
This is why social media needs to have a stupidity filter. I bet the victims of the bombing in Boston don't think this funny. Nothing funny about people getting maimed and killed in a terrorist attack. #BostonStrong
(Video) Milan Lucic cup checks Danny DeKeyser
That's going to leave a mark. Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic cup checks Detroit Red Wings defenseman Danny DeKeyser There was no call on the play.
Because it's the Stanley Cup Playoffs
#BecauseItsTheCup pic.twitter.com/sVlYUG0JY9
— CellyHard (@CellyHard) April 18, 2014
Every year, I tell my wife I will see you in June when the playoffs are over.
Where the Wild a victim of interference on game winning goal?
Catching up on my reading, I have been following this story at work, today. I think you could make the argument that there should have been an interference called on the game winning goal. Thoughts?
Michael Russo also says that the head coach of the Wild Mike Yeo was going to talk to the supervisor of officials about the interference on the game winning goal.
Yeo said the Wild also plans to talk to the series supervisor of officials (Don van Massenhoven) Saturday to try to get a ruling on a few things they were upset about, like Brodziak and Cooke being bowled over by Barrie before Stastny’s winner, why Koivu’s net off the moorings wasn’t a penalty vs. Johnson knocking the net off, why that faceoff was outside the zone as opposed to inside when Johnson started the whole thing and the scrum, in the Wild’s eyes, was at the top of the circle.
Here's Stastny's OT winner;Was Tyson Barrie who took out Cooke/Brodziak before goal. Described wrong on #mnwild blog http://t.co/bycs9xtEIL
— Michael Russo (@Russostrib) April 18, 2014
Erik Johnson saves an empty net goal (Video)
Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson saves the game clinching empty net goal. I want to know why this wasn’t a penalty? Delay of game, I would say. Maybe not.
Golf is a dangerous sport
Good morning, and happy Good Friday. I know this isn't funny, but I couldn't help myself. You have to be careful where you walk on a golf course.
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